You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to lower the cost of higher education in Kansas.
Just create a program that gives two free years of education to future rocket scientists.
And to elementary teachers and health care workers and IT professionals and dozens of other technical and blue collar professions as well.
Kansas lawmakers indeed have created such a scholarship program, and ...
One of downtown Lawrence’s premier events is looking to cool off. Officials with Downtown Lawrence Inc. have announced that they are moving the Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale from its usually blazing-hot date in July to early September.
Sally Zogry, executive director of Downtown Lawrence Inc., told me part of the decision was related to the pandemic, but part of it was just a growing sense that a ...
An unexpected repair to the Bowersock Dam is likely to produce a noticeable drop in water levels along a key stretch of the Kansas River near downtown Lawrence.
Sarah Hill-Nelson, an owner of the Bowersock Mills & Power Company, said an inflatable bladder on the dam has unexpectedly failed and needs some urgent repairs. The bladder is used to control the height of the dam, which allows operators of the dam ...
There won’t be an ambulance filled with $2.6 million traveling from the Douglas County Courthouse on the south end of Massachusetts Street to City Hall on the north end.
But it is a fitting picture nonetheless for a proposed property tax rate increase that Douglas County commissioners are being asked to approve as part of the 2022 budget.
County Administrator Sarah Plinsky on Thursday unveiled a ...
Perhaps you plan to embark on an ancient activity that we once thought was relegated to drawings on the walls of caves: a summer vacation. If so, know that the DNA of children has not changed since your last one. They still will ask the time-immortal question: How much longer?
It is a fair question to ask in Lawrence about another arduous journey — the community’s trek to regain all the jobs it lost during ...
The Lawrence Public Library last week moved to a new phase of its reopening — including dropping its mask requirement — but it also is considering a permanent reduction in hours that would continue after the pandemic is over.
The library moved into its blue phase on June 1, which eliminated restrictions on how long people could stay in the library at a given time, added more seating areas, and moved the ...
